Union Triumph in Chicago

Even the workers themselves were surprised by the success of their civil disobedience... on a related note, I was at a conference last week where UE organizer Ashaki Binta was one of the speakers and she did a masterful job of discussing how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which celebrated its 60th birthday on Dec. 10, had influenced and been incorporated into the union's organizing work... I was practically in tears at the way she described (here I betray, perhaps, my elitist prejudices) blue-collar workers making this profound but abstract document relevant to their lives. Way to go, UE!